Revelation
Give me Revelation. That’s what it says on the whiteboard above my office desk. It’s a quote from one of my favorite Third Day songs reminding me that there is always something just beyond my reach that is far greater than anything I can imagine. Something I cannot discover on my own.
Lately, rather than being thankful for being able to feed over a million people since 2008, my mind has been haunted by the crippling thought of what we have not been able to accomplish. I’ve been telling myself if I communicated just the right thing to a corporate executive of a national food chain, or if I could connect with just the right person, millions more would be fed. As these thoughts flooded my mind, I’ve been overcome by a dark cloud of depression at times by own inability to make things happen on my timetable. Ironically, this cloud of depression veiled in nobility is really an arrogance that places me in a higher position than God intended.
Revelation.
The common theme of all of those thoughts is “I”. As a 40 year old man, I’d never mentioned taking food to anybody in need in my entire life, and have often noted in speaking engagements that only a fool could believe I did any of this, yet here I find myself thinking that “my” job is to fix this problem, and fix it right now. In all of that narcissism, I recalled the springboard that Food Rescue has been in so many lives according to so many of our volunteers, and I thought about all the pictures that have been sent to me of the children that have taken food to caring agencies. Perhaps there is always something greater going on than meets the eye. Something greater than “I” can control.
Maybe something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_uwWPE6lQ
Thank God for Revelation.
